December 2010
16 posts
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“Money is necessary for lots of things, but it’s helpful to remember that...”
– …When in fact if you are good enough, you can create your own freedom and you don’t have to wait. You just have to be good… - Frank Chimero’s blog
(Eric, this is a note to yourself, good stuff to remember)
Everyone else, Read the rest of the post.
“Attention to detail, like most facets of truly good design, can’t be (and never...”
– marco.org
Tradition
One of the things that makes the Holidays feel official are Springerle cookies. They’re a traditional German cookie with pretty simple ingredients and a wooden board is used to imprint the dough. What makes them different is anise oil, which gives them a light liquorish flavor. This year I wanted to learn to bake these and keep the family tradition alive. Polly help a lot with...
“It’s not rocket science. When you pile 2-3 feet of extremely heavy, dense snow...”
– http://utahavalanchecenter.org/advisory/slc on 12/20/2010
Connected
Instead I found a way to simulate the effect I wanted. I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them. Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with the most friendships between them were drawn on top of the others. I used a color ramp from black to blue to white, with each...
Watch“What is more beautiful, a burning candle or a lightbulb?
The answer is always the burning candles.”
Urnatur: Back to Basics
“… idea that revealing the passions and pursuits of one person can result...”
– http://theanthropologist.net
frosty
Fun to find these details before work.
“More is not always better. In fact, more is almost never better.”
– The inevitable decline due to clutter, Seth Godin (via Daringfireball)
...what can be replaced...
Ephemeralization, a really neat concept by a guy name Richard Buckminister Fuller, not the C-60 molecule above, but the idea that there will arise the ability to do “more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.” That nothing could be thought of now as software.
The iPhone and the iPad have effectively drilled a hole that will allow...
WatchFrom the packlite blog:
HD video of footage and images taken on a day ascent of the Croz/ Slovenian on the Grandes Jorasses north face. Climbers: Jonathan Griffith and William Sim. Shot and edited by Jonathan Griffith
Going fast and light, in alpine style. Check how they make a bivy and generally go with less equipment.
Impressive route. Inspiring stuff.